Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals
Thomas Klaffke • From Self-Reform to Worldview-Reform
I’m curious about religion for many of the same reasons I’m curious about open source. They’re organizational systems that bind people tightly together, and whose norms, fascinatingly, didn’t derive from any one place, but rather from a shared consensus iterated upon by each passing generation.
Nadia Asparouhova • Public Faith
#104: On Red Scare, finding writing inspiration, and America’s hero fetish
Haley Nahmanhaleynahman.substack.com
They're blind to a simple truth: complex minds can't develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don't grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.
Ted
... See moreOur society’s individualism, largely driven by technological advances and the illusion of endless progress, will no longer be sustainable – will not be able to last – in a world where anthropogenic climate change is a constant and growing threat.
Rupert Read • Welcome to the Chaoscene
no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone
rayne fisher-quanninternetprincess.substack.com
fuck this hits so hard. "The process of becoming yourself is not a corporate desk job, and it is not homework. You do not have to treat your flaws like action items that must be systematically targeted in order to receive a return on investment."
Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.